When 76-year-old Amélia realizes she has never had an orgasm in her life, she becomes determined to have one at any cost.

Selections

Bread & Roses (Asbury, New Jersey, USA)

7º Festival de Cinema de Muriaé (Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

1º MA Beach Festival (invited) ( Cururupu, MA, Brazil)

35º Girona Film Festival (Girona, Spain)

31º Festival Mix Brasil (São Paulo, Brazil)

AZSEX - Festival de Artes e Sexualidade Humana (Caruaru, PE, Brazil)

25º Festival Kinoarte de Cinema (Londrina, Brazil)

21ª Curta Santos (Santos, Brazil)

XXII Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería (Almería, Spain)

2º Festival de Cinema de Lages (Lages, SC, Brazil)

1º Festival de Cinema de São Bernardo do Campo (SP, Brazil)

II Festival Internacional de Cinema de Goiânia (Goiânia, Brazil)

V TRANSFORMA - Festival de Cinema da Diversidade de Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, Brazil)

7º CityBlue Films Festival (Vigo, Spain)

18ª Comunicurtas (Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil)

9th Medellín International Film Festival – FestMedallo (Medellín, Colombia)

II Cine das Almas (Itabaiana, Brazil)

25th Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)


Prices

7º Festival de Cinema de Muriaé (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
BEST ACTRESS

XXII Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería FICAL - (Almería, Spain)
BEST IBERO-AMERICAN SHORT
BEST ACTRESS

21ª Curta Santos - (SP, Brazil)
BEST SHORT (mostra brasilis)

2º Festival de Cinema de Lages - (Santa Catarina, Brazil)
BEST ACTRESS

V TRANSFORMA - Festival de Cinema da Diversidade de Santa Catarina - (Florianópolis, Brazil)
BEST SHORT (audience award)
HONORABLE MENTION

1º Festival de Cinema de São Bernardo do Campo - (SP, Brazil)
BEST SHORT BEST DIRECTOR

18º Comunicurtas (Paraíba, Brazil)
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST SCREENPLAY
BEST ACTING

FestMedallo (Medellín, Colombia)
BEST FICTIONAL SHORT

Vanessa Sandre

Vanessa Sandre is filmmaker and performer originally from Brazil and based in Toronto, Canada. Sandre has a Bachelor in Film and a Master in Literature focused on Feminism and Gender Studies. Vanessa has cultivated a diverse career as a screenwriter, producer, director and performer for the last 14 years. As a Latina immigrant and artist, Vanessa is inspired to create and contribute to projects that promote equity, inclusion, and diversity both in front of and behind the camera. She advocates for these through decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives. As a writer-director, Vanessa has helmed the award-winning narrative shorts "Nuvem" (Cloud, 2014) and "O Prazer é Todo Meu" (The Pleasure is All Mine, 2023). The latter addresses the taboo subject of female sexuality in old age and is currently on the festival circuit. Premiered at the end of 2023, the film has been selected for 18 festivals worldwide and has won 13 awards.